Chapter 36 Two brothers who collect fairy tales
In the past two months, many people in several small countries in the south of Rose Kingdom have seen such a scene:
A silver-haired boy and a blonde girl travel together.
The boy looks to be no more than twelve or thirteen years old, while the girl is even younger. The boy is a bit bookish, always reading in the quiet sunshine while holding a book; the girl is more lively, but still manages to escape with the elegance of an aristocratic child.
Both children are extremely beautiful, with big and bright eyes as clear as lake water. They have a kind of transcendent beauty, like people who have stepped out of fairy tale books.
The girl is especially special. She seems to have an innate charm that makes people approachable. Her voice is even more melodious, like a lark singing in spring. There is not a hotel owner or shop owner who would not give a discount to this lovely blonde girl when they see her.
The two children were polite, well-behaved and cute. They stayed in the hotel every night. They obviously had a lot of money with them, but no one saw the family members or servants responsible for taking care of them.
Many people speculate that they are half-brothers and sisters, so they have different hair and eye colors.
Some people say that these may be two rich children who ran away from home. They escaped from the care of their parents and embarked on a journey to a foreign country.
Some people also say that the hometown of these two children must have suffered some kind of disaster. Their parents died and they had to travel far away from their original residence.
But no one knows that they are the former sages and future kings of a prosperous kingdom.
Once, the kind-hearted hotel owner asked about these two beautiful children:
"Children, where did you come from? Did your family encounter any changes? Do you need help?"
Aurora replied:
"The day I was born, my hometown suffered a disaster, and my family was also cursed. So, we have to go far, far away to find a way to lift the curse in order to save my family. ”
Her answer was honest.
"Thank you for your kindness, kindhearted person. We don't need help. This task must be completed by ourselves." Rhine also said.
"Then, may the gods protect you." The hotel owner offered his blessing to the two children.
The next morning, as soon as the hotel owner got up, he discovered that his leg, which had been lame for more than ten years, had miraculously "healed itself".
But on the road, not all innkeepers are kind-hearted people.
From time to time, there would be malicious robbers who wanted to take advantage of the cover of night to rob these two rich children without adult supervision.
However, all the robbers and traffickers who had similar ideas disappeared without a trace.
After many days, the story of the two children spread.
However, due to word of mouth and repeated processing, the legend has also changed its shape.
People say that there is a brother and sister whose parents were cursed by the devil and were seriously ill in bed.
The two children had to leave their homes and embark on a journey, trekking through mountains and wilderness to a sacred mountain to find the rainbow-colored flowers that were said to be able to lift the curse and heal their seriously ill parents. A magical elf was moved by the two children and secretly protected them.
When the two children encounter a man-eating beast, the elf will cast a spell to drive the beast away; when they encounter a murderous robber, the elf will turn the robber into an ugly toad.
People who heard this story praised the two children for their strength and wished them to find the magical flowers soon, return to their hometown, and cure their bedridden parents.
Later, two scholar brothers appeared on the mainland who specialized in linguistics and history, collecting and organizing folklore and fairy tales.
They excavated folk tales from different narrators and recorders, made identifications and modified them in terms of language and rhetoric, and compiled them into a collection of fairy tales.
The two knowledgeable brothers discovered this story during extensive research.
"Brother, this is really an interesting folk legend, widely circulated in the southwest of the mainland. There are several different variations of this story, but the protagonists are basically a brother and sister, and the goal is to lift the curse on their family. I think we need to Write it down.”
"Okay, let's call this story "Brothers, Sisters and Rainbow Flowers"."
Of course, this is all a story for later.
……
After a long journey, the magician and the princess finally traveled to the southern seaside and looked at the boundless sea.
The water is so blue, like the clean blue sky; the water is so clear, like the brightest gem.
The golden sunlight shines on the water, making the waves sparkle, as if the sea is sprinkled with fine gold foil. The waves rose and fell, breaking into waves, as white as fresh snow.
"The book says that under this sea is the country where mermaids and other intelligent creatures in the sea live." Aurora said.
One of the "Dark Magical Sisters" of the dark witch Maleficent, she is in the kingdom of mermaids under the waves.
Since the dark witch Maleficent has contact with this sea hag, she probably knows where Maleficent is now!
The princess looked at the turbulent waves and was in trouble again:
"But, how should we get down?
"Moreover, even if we can go down, how can we find the country where mermaids and other intelligent sea creatures live in the vast sea?
"And even if we find the kingdom of mermaids, how can we communicate with them?
"The information I read says that the mermaids in the sea country are very hostile to humans on the earth! They will even deliberately cause disasters and attack ships passing through this sea area!
"We humans, even if we can enter the land of mermaids, we will definitely not be welcome. Maybe we will even fight with them!"
(End of chapter)